"We are going to take a pretty hard run at trying to pursue some solutions to the crisis we face in respect to opiates and heroin and that's an issue that affects every community," Baker said.

Before Charlie Baker gets to work, he needs to be inaugurated. That happens on Jan. 8th at the State House, and while he says he knows what's going on that day, others are hammering out the particulars.

"And there's a stupefying number of details. Where people sit, who do you invite, what color is going to be your primary color… Yikes," Baker added.